Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any fish of the family Triglidæ, and especially of the restricted subfamily Triglinæ; a triglid or trigline.
- noun The gemmous dragonet, Callionymus lyra, more fully called
yellow gurnard . See cut underCallionymus . - noun A flying-fish or flying-robin of the family Cephalacanthidæ (or Dactylopteridæ), more fully called
flying-gurnard . The best-known species is Cephalacanthus or Dactylopterus volitans. See cut underDactyloptcrus .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One ofseveral European marine fishes, of the genus Trigla and allied genera, having a large and spiny head, with mailed cheeks. Some of the species are highly esteemed for food. The name is sometimes applied to the American sea robins.
- noun See under
Flying .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various marine fish of the family Triglidae, that have a large armored head and fingerlike
pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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"Ray observes that the word gurnard, which may be regarded as the
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He spoke out to warn of the environmental impact of the industry and suggested consumers should switch to less fashionable wild alternatives such as gurnard or megrim.
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He spoke out to warn of the environmental impact of the industry and suggested consumers should switch to less fashionable wild alternatives such as gurnard or megrim.
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New dishes will include prawns with spring asparagus and rhubarb citronette, and potato gnocchi with gurnard, tomatoes, aubergines and salted ricotta.
Plucking the Finest Fruits From the Sea Jemima Sissons 2011
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The selection depends entirely on what's been on the market that morning, but sole, gurnard, mackerel, trout and sea bass all make regular appearances.
What's the catch? A day at Billingsgate fish market and training school 2011
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The Yellow Sea has marked seasonal variations and supports both cold temperate species (eel-pout, cod, flatfish, Pacific herring) and warm water species (skates, gurnard, jewfish, small yellow croaker, spotted sardine, fleshy prawn, southern rough shrimp).
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Our food arrived—gurnard, a delicious fish—and the conversation moved on to Larbi and the ghost guardian.
A House in Fez SUZANNA CLARKE 2007
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Our food arrived—gurnard, a delicious fish—and the conversation moved on to Larbi and the ghost guardian.
A House in Fez SUZANNA CLARKE 2007
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Our food arrived—gurnard, a delicious fish—and the conversation moved on to Larbi and the ghost guardian.
A House in Fez SUZANNA CLARKE 2007
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Our food arrived—gurnard, a delicious fish—and the conversation moved on to Larbi and the ghost guardian.
A House in Fez SUZANNA CLARKE 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word gurnard
Amazing creature!
December 16, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word gurnard
"In 1483, a Friday meal served in the Tower of London as part of the three-day coronation banquet for Richard III included salted lamprey, pike soup, plaice in Saracen sauce, sea crabs, fried gurnard, and baked conger eel, followed by a second course of grilled tench, bass in pastry, salmon in pastry, sliced sole, perch in pastry, shrimp, trout, roast porpoise, and gurnard again (this time baked with quinces). The spices accompanying this meal were pepper, ginger, cloves, 'grains' (of paradise), mace, and a considerable amount of sugar."
Paul Freedman, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination (New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2008), 35.
November 27, 2017